Three days with the Founders, the Biopharma Leaders, and the Investors Building the Future of Biology.
SynBioBeta 2026. May 4-7, San Jose, California

Other conferences have panels about ‘navigating the regulatory landscape.’ We have a guy who’s been bitten by snakes 200 times on stage with the CEO engineering universal antivenom from his antibodies.
Who should attend?
SynBioBeta is for the people building with biology and the people funding, buying, and partnering with them. If you’re a founder raising capital, a company looking for your next technology partner or customer, or a team tracking how AI is reshaping your industry, the people you want to meet are here for three days.
Why attend?
The startups presenting at SynBioBeta this year are building programmable RNA medicines, virtual cell models, AI-designed enzymes, and sweet proteins that replace sugar. They're on stage alongside GSK, Sanofi, Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, J&J, Unilever, and P&G. Watching how these companies interact, where the partnerships form, and which technologies the biggest players are evaluating is something you can't get from a report or webinar. And our 1:1 Partnering App lets you book meetings before you arrive.
Founders on Stage
What Leaders Walk Away With
"Our Series A came together because of a little bit of SynBioBeta magic. I’ve been attending for a decade and it’s been inspiring to watch the field evolve from a lot of hopes and dreams to real products and applications."
"Our Series A came together because of a little bit of SynBioBeta magic. I’ve been attending for a decade and it’s been inspiring to watch the field evolve from a lot of hopes and dreams to real products and applications."

Jacob Glanville
Founder & CEO

"Every time I attend SynBioBeta, I walk away with something transformative – a new investor, a fantastic hire, or an idea that changes how we work. It’s a community unlike any other."
"Every time I attend SynBioBeta, I walk away with something transformative – a new investor, a fantastic hire, or an idea that changes how we work. It’s a community unlike any other."

Ola Wlodek
CEO

"Nabla was accelerated into existence because of SynBioBeta. I met Seth Bannon from 50 Years, Cee Cee Schnugg from Boom Capital, and others from Y Combinator there, and those same people seeded Nabla. The vibe, leverage, and energy at SynBioBeta are unreal."
"Nabla was accelerated into existence because of SynBioBeta. I met Seth Bannon from 50 Years, Cee Cee Schnugg from Boom Capital, and others from Y Combinator there, and those same people seeded Nabla. The vibe, leverage, and energy at SynBioBeta are unreal."

Surge Biswas
Founder

"For every single fund at Boom Capital, one of our best companies has come directly from SynBioBeta. I met Mammoth Bio at SynBioBeta, and I met Nabla Bio at SynBioBeta."
"For every single fund at Boom Capital, one of our best companies has come directly from SynBioBeta. I met Mammoth Bio at SynBioBeta, and I met Nabla Bio at SynBioBeta."

Celestine Schnugg
Founder

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Human Health
From Cells to Patients: Solving the Scale Mismatch in Virtual Biology
Drug discovery often measures biology at the cell level, while therapies must ultimately work across tissues, organs, and whole patients. This scale mismatch means that even highly accurate cellular predictions can fail to translate in the clinic. This session explores strategies to bridge that gap. How do we connect single-cell dynamics to organ-level physiology and patient outcomes? How do we preserve biological context while scaling models? And how do we ensure that virtual biology does not stop at simulation, but informs real therapeutic decisions? Speakers will discuss multiscale modeling that links molecular and cellular systems to higher-order biology; spatial and high-dimensional phenotypic data that retain context; and integrated computational–experimental loops that translate cellular signals into clinically meaningful biomarkers. Together, we ask: how do we ensure virtual biology reflects not just what cells do in isolation, but how biology behaves in the full complexity of patients?
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Featuring

Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Xaira
Chairman & CEO
Neuroscience pioneer and former Stanford president building AI biotech.

Kim Branson
GlaxoSmithKline
SVP, Global Head
Drug-discovery AI architect turning data into medicines.

David Hallett
Recursion
CSO
Veteran “drug hunter” leading Recursion’s industrialized, AI-driven discovery.

Ron Alfa
NOETIK Inc.
Co-Founder & CEO
Physician-scientist and Recursion veteran building AI cancer therapeutics.
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Human Health
From Cells to Patients: Solving the Scale Mismatch in Virtual Biology
Drug discovery often measures biology at the cell level, while therapies must ultimately work across tissues, organs, and whole patients. This scale mismatch means that even highly accurate cellular predictions can fail to translate in the clinic. This session explores strategies to bridge that gap. How do we connect single-cell dynamics to organ-level physiology and patient outcomes? How do we preserve biological context while scaling models? And how do we ensure that virtual biology does not stop at simulation, but informs real therapeutic decisions? Speakers will discuss multiscale modeling that links molecular and cellular systems to higher-order biology; spatial and high-dimensional phenotypic data that retain context; and integrated computational–experimental loops that translate cellular signals into clinically meaningful biomarkers. Together, we ask: how do we ensure virtual biology reflects not just what cells do in isolation, but how biology behaves in the full complexity of patients?
Register Now
Featuring

Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Xaira
Chairman & CEO
Neuroscience pioneer and former Stanford president building AI biotech.

Kim Branson
GlaxoSmithKline
SVP, Global Head
Drug-discovery AI architect turning data into medicines.

David Hallett
Recursion
CSO
Veteran “drug hunter” leading Recursion’s industrialized, AI-driven discovery.

Ron Alfa
NOETIK Inc.
Co-Founder & CEO
Physician-scientist and Recursion veteran building AI cancer therapeutics.
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AIxBIO
The Data Reality Check: Human-First Biology for AI Models
Why do so many in silico models fail when moved to the lab or clinic? Too often, they’re trained on incomplete, non-human, or non-representative datasets. This session tackles the “data gap” head-on: from interoperability bottlenecks and the black box problem to the limits of current virtual cell simulations (~50 million perturbations vs. the billions biology demands). Panelists will explore how to create “human-first” datasets that reflect real biology, unlock mechanistic interoperability, and close the discovery–development divide. The goal: build AI tools that can directly identify viable drug candidates instead of stalling in silico.
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Featuring

Krish Ramadurai
AIX Ventures
Partner
TechBio investor backing AI-designed drugs and breakthroughs.

Julie O'Shaughnessy
Vivodyne
COO
Operational scale-up leader building a predictive human-tissue platform.

Nima Alidoust
Tahoe
CEO & Co-founder
Built Tahoe-100M: 100M single-cell dataset powering virtual cell models.

Avantika Lal
Genentech
Principal ML Scientist II
Building DNA foundation models that design regulatory sequences.
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AIxBIO
The Data Reality Check: Human-First Biology for AI Models
Why do so many in silico models fail when moved to the lab or clinic? Too often, they’re trained on incomplete, non-human, or non-representative datasets. This session tackles the “data gap” head-on: from interoperability bottlenecks and the black box problem to the limits of current virtual cell simulations (~50 million perturbations vs. the billions biology demands). Panelists will explore how to create “human-first” datasets that reflect real biology, unlock mechanistic interoperability, and close the discovery–development divide. The goal: build AI tools that can directly identify viable drug candidates instead of stalling in silico.
Register Now
Featuring

Krish Ramadurai
AIX Ventures
Partner
TechBio investor backing AI-designed drugs and breakthroughs.

Julie O'Shaughnessy
Vivodyne
COO
Operational scale-up leader building a predictive human-tissue platform.

Nima Alidoust
Tahoe
CEO & Co-founder
Built Tahoe-100M: 100M single-cell dataset powering virtual cell models.

Avantika Lal
Genentech
Principal ML Scientist II
Building DNA foundation models that design regulatory sequences.
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AIxBIO
Programmable Molecules: AI and the Rise of Context-Aware Therapeutics
For the first time, AI is enabling us to imagine medicines that “think” - turning on only inside diseased cells or under specific physiological conditions. Neural networks trained on RNA, protein, and cellular data are unlocking a new generation of programmable therapies with unprecedented precision, from cancer drugs that remain inert until encountering tumor signals to RNA medicines capable of adapting to dynamic biological environments. But designing intelligent molecules is only part of the challenge. As AI expands the space of possible therapeutics, the field must also confront a critical question: how do we reliably build, test, and manufacture increasingly complex biological designs? This session explores the emerging continuum from AI-designed molecules to manufacturable programmable therapeutics, examining how advances in sequence design, synthesis, delivery, and validation are translating computational insight into real-world medicines. The future of medicine isn’t static molecules - it’s intelligent, adaptive therapeutics engineered across the full stack, from algorithm to clinic.
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Featuring

Georgia Lu
Magnet Ventures
Founder & Mng Partner
AI-biotech investor blending M&A instincts with founder coaching.

Ashoka Madduri
Sanofi
Head, Scientific Strategy
AI-for-mRNA strategist shaping Sanofi’s genetic-medicine bets.

Simon Kohl
Latent Labs
Founder & CEO

Jacob Becraft
Strand
CEO & Co-founder
MIT “mRNA programming language” inventor building programmable RNA medicines. Former Ron Weiss lab, interned with Bob langer
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AIxBIO
Programmable Molecules: AI and the Rise of Context-Aware Therapeutics
For the first time, AI is enabling us to imagine medicines that “think” - turning on only inside diseased cells or under specific physiological conditions. Neural networks trained on RNA, protein, and cellular data are unlocking a new generation of programmable therapies with unprecedented precision, from cancer drugs that remain inert until encountering tumor signals to RNA medicines capable of adapting to dynamic biological environments. But designing intelligent molecules is only part of the challenge. As AI expands the space of possible therapeutics, the field must also confront a critical question: how do we reliably build, test, and manufacture increasingly complex biological designs? This session explores the emerging continuum from AI-designed molecules to manufacturable programmable therapeutics, examining how advances in sequence design, synthesis, delivery, and validation are translating computational insight into real-world medicines. The future of medicine isn’t static molecules - it’s intelligent, adaptive therapeutics engineered across the full stack, from algorithm to clinic.
Register Now
Featuring

Georgia Lu
Magnet Ventures
Founder & Mng Partner
AI-biotech investor blending M&A instincts with founder coaching.

Ashoka Madduri
Sanofi
Head, Scientific Strategy
AI-for-mRNA strategist shaping Sanofi’s genetic-medicine bets.

Simon Kohl
Latent Labs
Founder & CEO

Jacob Becraft
Strand
CEO & Co-founder
MIT “mRNA programming language” inventor building programmable RNA medicines. Former Ron Weiss lab, interned with Bob langer
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AIxBIO
Beyond Static Predictions — AI for Protein Dynamics and Multi-Cell Models
The next frontier of biology isn’t in predicting a single static protein structure, but in capturing how proteins move, fold, and interact across time and environments. This session explores how AI can illuminate protein conformations and dynamics, and extend those insights into virtual multi-cellular or tissue models. Experts will discuss the challenge of integrating heterogeneous datasets and instruments, and how breakthroughs in dynamic modeling could reshape drug design, disease understanding, and biomanufacturing. Can we build models that reflect the living, breathing complexity of biology—not just snapshots, but motion?
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Featuring

Elliot Hershberg
Amplify Partners
Partner, Author
Driving the Century of Biology

Gabriele Corso
Boltz
CEO
Built DiffDock and the Boltz open-source models reshaping drug discovery.

Peter Clark
Novo Nordisk
VP, CDD
Computational drug-design leader, shipped candidates from CAR-T to peptides.

John Chodera
Achira Labs
Co-founder & CEO
Open-science simulation pioneer behind Folding@home’s COVID Moonshot.

Tanja Kortemme
UCSF
Vice Dean of Research
De novo protein-design pioneer; NIH Pioneer Award winner.
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AIxBIO
Beyond Static Predictions — AI for Protein Dynamics and Multi-Cell Models
The next frontier of biology isn’t in predicting a single static protein structure, but in capturing how proteins move, fold, and interact across time and environments. This session explores how AI can illuminate protein conformations and dynamics, and extend those insights into virtual multi-cellular or tissue models. Experts will discuss the challenge of integrating heterogeneous datasets and instruments, and how breakthroughs in dynamic modeling could reshape drug design, disease understanding, and biomanufacturing. Can we build models that reflect the living, breathing complexity of biology—not just snapshots, but motion?
Register Now
Featuring

Elliot Hershberg
Amplify Partners
Partner, Author
Driving the Century of Biology

Gabriele Corso
Boltz
CEO
Built DiffDock and the Boltz open-source models reshaping drug discovery.

Peter Clark
Novo Nordisk
VP, CDD
Computational drug-design leader, shipped candidates from CAR-T to peptides.

John Chodera
Achira Labs
Co-founder & CEO
Open-science simulation pioneer behind Folding@home’s COVID Moonshot.

Tanja Kortemme
UCSF
Vice Dean of Research
De novo protein-design pioneer; NIH Pioneer Award winner.
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SynBioBeta BioBeats: DJ After Party
The SynBioBeta BioBeats: DJ After Party brings the science of sound to the dancefloor. Research suggests that music and audible vibrations can influence cellular growth and behavior, reminding us that biology responds to rhythm, synchronizing with our biological code. Starting at 8pm, this high energy celebration marks a playful conclusion to the SynBioBeta Conference, blending house beats with the spirit of our global community. Step away from the sessions, connect with fellow innovators, and share an atmosphere of joy and celebration where sound, movement, and biology meet. Join the party, feel the pulse, and let the rhythm connect our community on a deeper level.
Register Now

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SynBioBeta BioBeats: DJ After Party
The SynBioBeta BioBeats: DJ After Party brings the science of sound to the dancefloor. Research suggests that music and audible vibrations can influence cellular growth and behavior, reminding us that biology responds to rhythm, synchronizing with our biological code. Starting at 8pm, this high energy celebration marks a playful conclusion to the SynBioBeta Conference, blending house beats with the spirit of our global community. Step away from the sessions, connect with fellow innovators, and share an atmosphere of joy and celebration where sound, movement, and biology meet. Join the party, feel the pulse, and let the rhythm connect our community on a deeper level.
Register Now
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